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Exclusive: LilWayneHQ Interviews Mike Banger; Talks Weezy’s Reaction To Selling A Milli First Week & More

Danny M — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 10:11:28 +0000

Below, is an exclusive interview we held with producer, mixer and recording engineer Mike “Banger” Cadahia, who works closely with Lil Wayne and the Young Money/Cash Money family every day and night. In this interview, Mike speaks about his job, Lil Wayne, YMCMB, the “That’s What They Call Me” leak, how Weezy reacted to selling over a million copies of Tha Carter IV in the first week of the album being released, and more! Banger also says Tunechi is working on a new project, but wouldn’t tell us what it is (probably the I Can’t Feel My Face collaboration).

LWHQ: Tell us about yourself Mike? How long have you been creating beats and engineering for?
Mike Banger: I lost exact count but maybe over ten years. I started playing drums first for a few years then got an MPC and started producing. I eventually got Pro Tools and learned to record and mix.

LWHQ: What made you get into this career?
Mike Banger: I just love music and haven’t found anything better to do yet. It’s also great to know how many people you can reach doing this. I like being in the studio environment at any hour so its easy to pull an all-nighter. I heard you can make a lot of money too.

LWHQ: How many hours does Lil Wayne keep you in the studio for per week?
Mike Banger: I don’t know. I’m in the studio everyday at least once on my own regardless unless it’s a special occasion. How many hours a week do I spend out of the studio is the question.

LWHQ: What’s your favorite Wayne track that you recorded and mixed?
Mike Banger: “Right Above It” was my first real major mix and I think that reached #1 on charts so it’s good to know my ears can be trusted at that level. “Bill Gates” is dope too. “YM Banger” was produced, recorded, and mixed by me so you can’t forget that one of course.

LWHQ: Have you produced more tracks for Weezy that we can be looking out for in the future after “YM Banger” got so much positive feedback?
Mike Banger: There’s that one with the wrong version leaked “That’s What They Call Me”. I mixed it already but I don’t know if it should be leaked or be held for another project. I’m looking to do more tracks with everyone in YM though now that I’m more comfortable in this position. Millz got one, Gudda did one too and I’m hoping on doing a lot more collaboration group tracks like “YM Banger”.

LWHQ: Do you have a favorite artist from Young Money who you love working with?
Mike Banger: Yeah Wayne. I actually like it the most when everyone is in the studio busy working together.

LWHQ: Have you worked with anyone from Cash Money, such as Birdman?
Mike Banger: Stunna comes in once in a while and he also did one of my tracks too, but I don’t know about anyone else since I’ve really just been busy with Wayne.

LWHQ: What other music artists have you never worked with, but you would love to one day?
Mike Banger: I don’t know. I love hip hop and through Wayne I’ve somehow ended up working on a lot of my favorite artists projects already. I’ve gotten the opportunity to touch sessions from Busta Rhymes, Kanye West, Tech N9ne, Cory Gunz, Nicki Minaj, Drake, Eminem, Nas, Jadakiss, and N.O.R.E., but they usually just email each other the songs. I guess I would like to witness more physical collaborations between the artists.

LWHQ: What was Wayne’s initial reaction to selling nearly a million albums in the first week?
Mike Banger: He just relayed the information to me on the jet in mid air, we congratulated everyone on the team, and kept on working. Then we started joking acting all nonchalant about it like: “A mill in a week huh? hmm, not too bad. It could have been worse.”

LWHQ: Has Tune been back in the studio working on any other projects? Such as Dedication 4, or the collabo album with Drake, etc.?
Mike Banger: Yeah, we never left the studio so rest assured the next project is already on its way. I can’t really say what that is yet though but maybe I’ll tweet it.

LWHQ: Do you have any advice for any upcoming producers/engineers?
Mike Banger: I would say to really work on your craft till you feel you are truly ready to compete in the business and expect long hours of unpaid work, possibly many years. Be who you want to be at all times even when you’re at the bottom with nothing. Preserve your creativity. Be influenced by your inspirations and keep in mind that one day you might be in a room surrounded by all of them.

LWHQ: Any last words, websites or shout outs you would like to leave the readers with?
Mike Banger: Shout out to Wayne, check out my website MikeBanger.com, @MikeBanger on Twitter, Young Money we’re the greatest! Shout out to T-Streets on the studio bus with me, thank you HQ for the interview, one time for the 305, and everyone go get C4.

Shout out to Kronnick for setting up the interview!

Jae Millz – Forever Winning (Feat Lil Wayne)

Danny M — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:59:34 +0000

Jae Millz grabs his Young Money boss Lil Wayne for the first single off his upcoming Nothing Is Promised album. This track is called “Forever Winning“, and you can stream/download it below:

Download: Jae Millz – Forever Winning (Feat Lil Wayne)

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Exclusive: LilWayneHQ Interviews Detail; Talks Tha Carter IV & More

Danny M — Tue, 31 May 2011 10:09:07 +0000

Below, is an exclusive interview LilWayneHQ.com held with producer/music artist Detail, who has been working closely with Lil Wayne and the YMCMB crew recently. In the interview, Detail speaks on music, the first time he met Weezy, Tune‘s upcoming Tha Carter IV album, and more.

LWHQ: Tell us about yourself Detail? How long have you been a music artist and creating beats for? What made you get into this career?
Detail: I love Music! I’ve been doing this music and creating beats since I was 16, and I am now 26. What made me get into this game is the fact that I was told I couldn’t get in.

LWHQ: Do you have more fun spending time as a producer or as an actual artist?
Detail: I have more fun working people than working myself.

LWHQ: What other music artists have you never worked with, but you would love to one day?
Detail: John Mayor, and I would like to work with myself a lil’ more.

LWHQ: How did you meet Lil Wayne, and what’s the experience like in the studio with Wayne?
Detail: I did the single for Akon called “I’m So Paid” and I met Wayne on the video set of that… shout out my nigga Jeezy, he was on that song. The experience with Wayne in the studio is random, like you don’t know what to expect, but your gonna get there.

LWHQ: Have you been working with any artists from Young Money Entertainment or Cash Money Records?
Detail: Absolutely, yeah they all family

LWHQ: Tell us about Tha Carter IV; what can we expect? Carter 2 style? Rebirth style? lots of auto-tune? features?
Detail: First and foremost, there is no auto-tune on “How To Love”. I’ll give any producer or engineer 10k if they find any vocal sign of auto-tune on there. With features, I don’t want to spill the beans.

LWHQ: How many songs have you done for C4, and will Weezy or anyone from YMCMB be on any of your upcoming projects?
Detail: I’ve done a bunch songs with Wayne… he has a good ear, whatever he chooses he can have. Anybody else, of course any smashes they want to do lets get it, it’s family.

LWHQ: Do you feel that Tha Carter IV can live up to the hype, and do you feel it has the same potential and power as Tha Carter III did?
Detail: You got to think of it like this, when you got an icon that gets it like Lil Wayne, they get it. When LeBron left Cleveland and went to Miami, did he live up to the hype?… simple mathematics.

LWHQ: Any last words, websites or shouts outs you would like to leave the readers with?
Detail: Find me and see me at LilWayneHQ.com, and find me and see me exclusively at IAmDetail.com! Don’t follow me on twitter unless I follow you first hahaha… @DetaiL.

LWHQ: Thanks for your time Detail, we appreciate you giving us this interview. Everybody at LilWayneHQ.com and YoungMoneyHQ.com would like to wish you the best of luck in the future.
Detail: YMCMB Luv.

Shout out to Andy for setting up the interview, and don’t forget to like Detail on Facebook!

Detail shouts out LilWayneHQ.com

Mary J. Blige – Someone To Love Me (Remix) (Feat Lil Wayne & Diddy) [No DJ]

Danny M — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 14:17:38 +0000

Last week, Angie Martinez dropped Mary J. Blige‘s “Someone To Love Me” remix featuring Lil Wayne and Diddy with tags. Now we have the tagless version for y’all, which you can stream/download below.

Download: Mary J. Blige – Someone To Love Me (Remix) (Feat Lil Wayne & Diddy) [No DJ]

An unofficial Weezy mixtape titled “The Return Of Nino Brown” was released today also, which recaps all of Tune‘s latest music. You all know I don’t normally post unofficial tapes, but this will be good for your collection just in case you missed some of Wayne‘s records. You can check out and download the mixtape here!

Oh, and we will be getting Birdman and Lil Wayne‘s “Fire Flame Remix” music video this week!

Birdman – Loyalty (Feat Lil Wayne & Tyga) [CDQ]

Artille — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:17:08 +0000

Back in March we posted an exclusive leftover from Birdman‘s album Pricele$$ entitled “Loyalty“. Well the CDQ version of the song has finally hit the internet with a few changes. The song features Lil Wayne and Tyga (who also lays down a nice hook). Don’t forget to leave your thoughts on this track in the comments box and be sure to download the song below.

Download: Birdman – Loyalty (Feat Lil Wayne & Tyga) [CDQ] [Rapidshare] | Birdman – Loyalty (Feat Lil Wayne & Tyga) [CDQ] [Usershare]

Update from Danny: This record might actually be on Birdman’s upcoming Bigger Than Life album now, because there are rumors that they have shot a music video for it before Tune went to prison.

Exclusive: LilWayneHQ Interviews STREETRUNNER; Talks Tha Carter IV & More

Artille — Mon, 31 May 2010 13:20:19 +0000

Below is an exclusive interview LilWayneHQ.com held with Grammy Award Winning producer STREETRUNNER. In the interview STREETRUNNER speaks on how he got into the music industry, working with Lil Wayne, Tha Carter IV, and much more. STREETRUNNER (Real name: Nicholas Warwar) is signed with EMI Music Publishing and is represented by Spliffington Management.

LilWayneHQ.com: Tell us about yourself STREETRUNNER? How long have you been producing for, and what made you get into this career?

STREETRUNNER: I been making beats since 1998. I started out a DJ until I got a EMU sp1200 and then that pretty much ended my DJ career. I rocked on the sp1200 for about a year and then graduated to a akai mpc 2000xl. I landed my first major placement in 2003 with Fat Joe’s Terror Sqaud billboard charting single “Take Me Home”. I later went onto sign with Terror Squad for a year and continued to grind it out and get placements. I have placed tracks on artist albums such as Fat Joe, Juelz Santana, Lil Wayne, Ludacris, LL Cool J, Slaughter House, Birdman, Fabolous and many more.

LWHQ: Name some of the songs you have done for Lil Wayne that we have probably heard, but not know you produced them?

SR: Shit… I got a gang of tracks that leaked during Tha Carter 3 leaks. “Talk It Over”, “1 Night Only”, “Trouble”, “Rapapompom” F/ Junior Reid, “Do It Again”, “Young Money Cash Money” F/ Brisco, “Pray To The Lord”, “1 Arm” F/ Juelz Santana (I Can’t Feel My Face leak), “Yeah” (Rebirth leak) and I’m sure a few that I don’t even know about. I did land “Gossip” on Tha Leak EP and also on the deluxe edition of Tha Carter 3. I produced “Playin With Fire” on Tha Carter 3 and I also co-produced “Ground Zero” with Infamous on “Rebirth”. I got a few tracks on hold for Tha Carter 4 so there is much more to come.

LWHQ: How did you get in contact with Lil Wayne, and have you ever been in the studio with him? What was that experience like if so?

SR: The first time I met Weezy was when I was working on Fat Joe’s album Me, Myself and I. Macho and my dude Safe were chillin’ with me at the Hit Factory parking lot waiting for Joe, and Wayne came out and Macho introduced me. Lucky for me my dude Safe had one of my beat CDs in his car and I was able to pass it to him. Within a hour of passing him the beat CD my manager got a call that Wayne wanted two beats from the CD for Tha Carter 3. Later that night I went up to Weezy’s studio session with Joe and he played us the records he made on my two tracks and Joe went nuts. I was like damn I just passed you this CD… I knew at that point we were going to make a lot of music in the future. The next day I went back to Hit Factory and hit him wit another ten beats. I haven’t stopped hitting him with heat since. I actually worked on one record with Junior Reid and Lil Wayne in the studio. Wayne just circled the room a few times while the beat was playin’ and then jumped in the booth and put his verses down. I also been in the studio several times with him to vibe on tracks or hear new music he’s made on my tracks. He’s real cool and down to earth dude…

LWHQ: You got awarded a GRAMMY for Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter III album, for a track you produced on there called “Playin’ With Fire”. How did that feel?

SR: That was nuts! I definitely wasn’t thinking Grammy while I was working on the C3 project. It was crazy that the album went platinum in a week to me but when it became a Grammy award winning album, shit got real.

LWHQ: Did you do any work on Weezy’s previous rock album, Rebirth?

SR: I did four records that I know of for Rebirth. A record I co-produced with Infamous called “Ground Zero” made it on the album. I also co-produced another record with Infamous but due to lyrical content it could not be on the that album, but might make a different album. I also co-produced a record with Blackout Movement that never made the album but was a monster, and a record I did solo called “Yeah” that leaked.

LWHQ: Do you have, or are you working on any new projects that we should be looking out for?

SR: I’m working on my first artist on Run The Streets named AdELA. She’s a female R&B/Pop/Hip Hop artist from Miami by way of Africa. The single we are pushing now is titled “Just Feel It” and is featuring Lil Wayne. I also have placements coming out this year on The Game RED album, Twista, Juelz Santana, Fat Joe, Jamie Foxx, Lil Waynes Carter 4 and a few others.

LWHQ: We heard you did a ‘crazy’ track for Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter IV album? Tell us about that… what’s the sound like, could it be a single, features, autotune etc?

SR: I did a really dope joint for the ladies with a soulful sample track that has a feature on the hook. I don’t want to go into to many details about the record cause some internet monster might find it and try to leak it. I got another record that my dude wrote the hook on that almost feels like a Jay Z “What More Can I Say” type track. I think I got 1 other record that’s pending along with those two so I just gotta see what’s up. I will say Weezy is spitting that shit over my tracks and they are 100% Hip Hop.

LWHQ: Have you heard any other material from Tha Carter IV? Or who Wayne has collaborated with on there?

SR: I heard a few joints… It’s definitely what the fans want. He’s just rapping and going hard on it. I think I heard maybe one rocked out track but the majority was rap/Hip Hop tracks. It should be another classic.

LWHQ: Do you know what sound style Wayne has used on the whole album (Tha Carter II, Tha Carter III, Rebirth, soulful, dark etc)?, and you think we will be getting the first single this Summer?

SR: Its a well rounded album… I’m not sure what their plans are for the album as far as releasing singles. I heard they want to try to drop C4 close to his release from prison. All the tracks I heard were going hard. Some soul, some south, some dark and a lil rock…

LWHQ: Lil Wayne has said Tha Carter IV will be released as soon as he gets out of jail… do you think Wayne will re-do the whole album when he gets out, and do you think the album will sell more copies than Tha Carter III did?

SR: I really don’t know how he’s going to feel after serving his sentence. It would definitely be dope if they dropped on the day of or near the day of his release, but that’s my opinion. Wayne and his team are going to do what they wanna do so we all just have to wait and see what happens. As for album sales, what C3 did in its first week was amazing, that might be a one time thing but you never know.

LWHQ: Have you worked with anyone from Young Money Entertainment or Cash Money Records?

SR: I produced a record on the 5 Star Stunna album that Birdman put out the record was called “Grind” F/ Lil Wayne and Brisco. I’ve also done records w Jae Millz and Gudda Gudda that have not released yet

LWHQ: Who would you like to work with from Young Money and Cash Money that you have not worked with so far?

SR: I was tryin’ hard at the top of the year to get a record on Drakes album and came really close but no luck. He’s maybe the main dude would like to produce a record for on a album.

LWHQ: Which other music artists in the game right now would love to collaborate with?

SR: T.I. Is at the top of my list, but also Jay Z and Andre 3000 are right behind him. I also would love to do a record on a Beyonce or Mary J Blige album. I’m on my grind steady though so it’s all very possible.

LWHQ: How do you feel about Lil Wayne’s prison sentence? And do you think the music game is missing him right now?

SR: I feel like they were tryin’ to make a example out of him. So honestly speaking I feel like the prison sentence is bullshit. I know everybody is missing him (fans, friends and family). I definitely miss the dude… He’s motivational for me and my music.

LWHQ: Any last words, websites or shouts outs you would like to leave the readers with?

SR: Check out my artist AdELA… Her new single “Just Feel It” that I produced available now on iTunes. You can also follow both of us on twitter @adelamusic and @SRbeats. Shout outs to Spliffington Management my team ILO, Rugah Rahj, Infamous, Blackout Movement, Smash, Big Mike and High Capacity Management. Be on the look out for more SR heat soon!

LWHQ: Thanks for your time STREETRUNNER, we appreciate you giving us this interview. Everybody at LilWayneHQ.com would like to wish you the best of luck in the future.

Exclusive: Lil Wayne – Fuck Me In The Mosh Pit

Danny M — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 16:33:13 +0000

Remember all the way back in July last year when we got a Lil Wayne track called “Fuck Me” with DJ tags on Well, LilWayneHQ are bringing you exclusively the full and no DJ version for you all to enjoy. This record never made it on the Rebirth album, and the official name of the song is “Fuck Me In The Mosh Pit“. You can listen and download this song below:

Download: Rapidshare | Usershare

Exclusive: D-Rich – We Gon’ Get Paid (Feat Lil Wayne) [Full]

Danny M — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 10:05:54 +0000

Remember this Lil Wayne “We Gon’ Get Paid” snippet we posted last month Well, we are now giving you the full version which is actually a D-Rich track. You can listen and download the song below:

Download: Rapidshare | Usershare

Enjoy

Exclusive: Birdman – Loyalty (Feat Lil Wayne & Tyga) [No DJ]

Danny M — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 23:35:00 +0000

Remember this song we got a preview of last year Well here is the full track in a LilWayneHQ exclusive. It’s called “Loyalty” and it’s a leftover from Birdman‘s Priceless album, which is in stores now! Lil Wayne and Tyga are also featured on the record, and you can stream/download it below:

Download: Rapidshare | Usershare [Updated with tagless version]

Enjoy, and you can view the lyrics here.

Exclusive: Jamie Foxx – Straight To The Dance Floor [No DJ] (Feat Lil Wayne)

Danny M — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 20:10:11 +0000

Here is the Jamie Foxx single titled “Straight To The Dance Floor” featuring Lil Wayne tagless. We posted this song 3 days ago with tags, but we are now bringing it to you with no tags -- call it our Christmas present to y’all. This single will appear on Jamie‘s upcoming album, Body which is set to drop on March 2nd 2010. You can listen and download the record below:

Download: Rapidshare | Usershare

Shouts to DJ Neptune for letting us premier this song, and ▪● мε՜՝мε for the graphic!